An unsettling racist assault caught on cellphone footage has triggered widespread calls for hate crime charges, after several white teens were seen chasing and attacking a Black teenager while calling him racial slurs.

The assault happened at a Regal Cinemas movie theater at 11 p.m. on Aug. 1 in Simi Valley, California. Authorities identified the victims as an 18-year-old Black teenager and an 18-year-old white teenager.

The now-viral footage of the attack shows several assailants converge on the Black victim, Michael Robinson, before punching and kicking him, then chasing him around a parking lot. At one point, Robinson is seen trying to fend off the attackers with a chair while the group is heard shouting racial slurs at him.

Robinson told local news affiliates that the group initiall

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